Can I have all domesticated animal together?

[Apsalar]

Can I have all animals in one cell, or it is necessary to make them "special" cells?

[rozn]

You can but it just looks messy unless its a huge pen.

[MagicManICT]

It also makes it difficult to breed for better quality as the animals will mate randomly. If you're only interested in keeping one male, then that solves that issue, but I like to keep a few breeding pairs to average out the RNG more.

[DatOneGuy]

Just to clarify if you mean pigs, sheep, and cows all together, you can do as you please, but it's common practice to separate in order to preserve your sanity. The same goes with animals in general, keeping your cows separate (gate locking, wooden basket cells, whatever you choose) is a good idea, especially if they are milking as you can milk them within the gates easily. Animals tend to clump together and get in your way when you are going to shear/milk, it's a monstrosity. Pigs don't have this issue so I tend to toss them all together, but separating them is also a decent idea to keep track easily.

Keeping one 'best' bull is also a good idea, if you have a runner up who is very close you may want to keep both, but there is never a reason to keep more than a few unless your bull is lacking in some other area, however cows/bulls typically only need breeding Q, milk Qual, and milk Quan, the rest doesn't matter too much. A common misconception is that Cow (female) breeding Q doesn't matter at all, however it does, simply not in the immediate generation.
"Breeding Quality: Puts a soft cap on all breeding from this cow, only applicable for bulls, but inheritable through cows"

[melindaregner]

Can I have all animals in one cell, or it is necessary to make them "special" cells?

What do you mean "special"? A cell with ribbons, or bling blings or whatever? like that? It's up to you.. If you can handle it.

[rozn]

Can I have all animals in one cell, or it is necessary to make them "special" cells?

What do you mean "special"? A cell with ribbons, or bling blings or whatever? like that? It's up to you.. If you can handle it.

Um... this post is 2 months old.

[MagicManICT]

Can I have all animals in one cell, or it is necessary to make them "special" cells?

What do you mean "special"? A cell with ribbons, or bling blings or whatever? like that? It's up to you.. If you can handle it.

Um... this post is 2 months old.

This is likely a new player. Look at his post count and join date. I applaud him for searching for the answer and then digging up an existing thread to carry on the convo instead of creating a new one. Beats having to answer the exact same thing over and over again.

As for special, the OP never clarified, but the implied question was, "Should each animal type should have their own pens at the minimum or maybe there was something more that needed to be done?" There are some more in-depth suggestions as for what to do with pens around the forums. For a small farm, you really don't need to do anything special. For a medium to large size village, you might want to go to something more specific such as separating producers, breeders, and slaughter. There's even techniques for penning the animals so you don't have to constantly sort them out, the most common being trapping an animal inside a gate and never letting it out.